Receptiveness, Not Sycophancy: Distinguishing Engagement from Deference in Language Models
A central concern with language models is sycophancy: their tendency to defer to users'views at the expense of independent substantive judgment. In parallel, work on social sycophancy has focused on behaviors such as validation and positivity that may signal inappropriate deference. Yet the markers of social sycophancy...
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